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...that the Warsaw Pact leaders wanted to sound a peaceful note on the eve of West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl's meeting with Soviet President Yuri Andropov in Moscow this week. Andropov will undoubtedly urge Kohl not to accept deployment of Pershing II missiles on West German soil...
Reminded of the horrors of the 1973 drought, which helped to bring down Emperor Haile Selassie, the Marxist government of Mengistu Haile Mariam has succeeded in keeping casualties down by activating a relief commission that has already resettled some 10,000 victims and reforested remote, soil-eroded areas. But such efforts can create new problems: for example, after being uprooted, people without an inborn immunity to malaria often prove more vulnerable to the disease. Meanwhile, international relief agencies charge that supplies are falling into the hands of government troops instead of beleaguered civilians. The rains that finally began last month...
...effort to ease church-state tensions, Vatican Spokesman Father Romeo Panciroli deplored the "political interpretations" of events that were "exclusively religious and moral." Before leaving Czestochowa, John Paul also pointedly offered a prayer "for those who wield authority on Polish soil." But he seemed determined to buttress the church's role as the sole mediator between the state and the Polish people. In a special meeting of the Polish episcopate, he urged the church hierarchy to "respond to the need to hear the truth, which is so acute in society." John Paul provided plenty of examples on the remaining...
...most other European countries, the NATO decision to station cruise missiles on the country's soil would be hotly debated by voters. The miserable state of the national economy would topple governments elsewhere. (Public debt amounts to about $4,000 for every Italian citizen; inflation is running in excess of 16% annually.) Issues exist, but they are not presented as matters to be commented on by the electorate...
Scores of awards later, the bright newcomers from Washington are just beginning to attract a national following. The state is the second biggest U.S. producer (after California) of Vitis vinifera grapes, the classic European wine varieties. It has the climate, soil and available land to become a wine region of world repute. Says Robert Finigan, editor-publisher of the newsletter Private Guide to Wines: "Washington is now where California was ten years...